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"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)

I have my invitation but i really don't want to go thru that whole TSA hassle thing.

Why? Are you ashamed of your cervix?

"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)

I don't see why so many of my fellow Americans care so much about the Royal Weddings, Funerals, and the like. Yes, I'm an Anglophile in some ways, and America will always have a special bond with England that we share with no other nation, but uplifting these do nothing ceremonial figureheads is silly IMO. We broke away from Mother Britain to get way from the Crown and all it's self serving pomp and circumstance.

There was a time when I viewed the Monarchy as being a grander institution than the Presidency, the imagery of Kings, Queens and Knights and all of that sparked my then teenaged imagination; The way they dressed, etc--it seemed so much grander and more eloquent than our system. But for all the grandeur of the monarchy, it can never come close to the humble dignity and majesty of the Presidency, an office open to any able and willing man or woman, unlike any monarchy.

I do wish, however, that the trappings of the "Imperial Presidency" that Kennedy and Nixon brought into the White House, still remained.

I'm not sure about Kennedy AND Nixon and the "Imperial Presidency." The Kennedys were famous for arts and culture they encouraged in the White House, but it was just Nixon who brought in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta uniforms. In what way do you think the Kennedys embodied an "imperial" presidency?

"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken